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Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for English

Tomi Adeyemi: The Writing Life and Her New Writing Course.

With her book "Children of Blood and Bone" spending 120 weeks on the New York Times bestseller...

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Scissors, Jeans, and Other Nouns That Are Always Plural. Flat Adverbs. Boteep.

Today, we'll talk about some weird nouns that are always plural, and then we'll go...

18:20

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You Know. Doppelganger. Trademarks. Funnily. Chicken Milk.

It's "listener question extravaganza" time, so I have some quick hits on discourse markers such...

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I Cannot Tell a Lie (but I Can Mislead! And Sometimes People Do It With Percentages.

We look at the linguistic difference between lying and misleading, and then because people often...

16:38

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How Aphasia Causes Difficulty Speaking. Chairdrobe.

Prodded by Bruce Willis's family's announcement that he is leaving acting after being diagnosed...

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Barracking, Sheilas and Shouts: How the Irish Influenced Australian English

"Barracking," "sheilas" and "shouts": How the Irish influenced Australian English. Plus, what...

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The Oxford Comma. And Should You Start a Sentence with 'And'?

Have you ever wondered why it's called the "Oxford comma"? We have the answer to that and many...

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Why Do We Cringe at 'Pepper and Salt'? Why 'Square' Is Uncool. Quickquish.

"Sticks and stones." "Bride and groom." "Heads or tails." Some word pairs almost always appear in...

16:00

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What's Square About a Square Meal? How to Use Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces. Guck.

The idea of a square meal goes back to the 1800s and possibly mining towns, but the word "square"...

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Are People Using 'Commiserate' Wrong? The Origin of (the Word) 'Influenza.' Hersband.

How the "Witch of Wall Street" relates to the word "commiserate." Plus, the interesting origin of...

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Do You Call In, Out, or Off Sick? How Kids Learn Language. Hexaboobiated.

People often tell me they hear others say they'll be absent from work in a different way than...

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Tips for Learning a New Language: The Fluent Show

Kerstin Cable, host of "The Fluent Show" shares her tips and enthusiasm for learning new...

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Why "Tiny" Sounds Smaller Than "Huge." Nixing the Horrid "Of."

The sounds of certain words make us think of things that are big or small, round or spiky, and...

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'Strollout,' 'Insurrection,' 'Yassify,' and Other Words of the Year for 2021

"Strollout," "insurrection," "yassify," "hard pants" and other words of the year for 2021. |...

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Cardsharp. The Old-New Singular 'They.' Grignug.

Was that uncle who wiped the floor with you in a card game a cardsharp or a card shark? Also, we...

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Questions, Questions, So Many Questions!

I have a big metaphorical pile of questions from listeners in which the answers are too short to...

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Is "Milk and Cookies" One Thing or Two? A New Language Term: The Santaback. Shoedabakers.

Today we use milk and cookies for Santa to figure out when compound subjects are singular or...

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